Technology

While many of us were nestled in our beds and enjoying Christmas day with family and friends, opening our gifts and downing the holiday grog, a nasty lump of coal was left once again under the tree for Stratfor by the LulzSec/Lulzboat crew...

While this service finds a number of issues and potential holes, we caution against using it in place of a full application assessment or penetration test if the web application in question processes critical or highly sensitive information...

CIOs and senior IT business decision makers must maintain a focus on specific trends that will effect the industries in which they compete. You should already be thinking about how technology is going to help shape your business far into the future. CIOs have to be forward-thinking...

When we truly understand that every server we secure, policy enforced, card swipe device locked down, banking website code scrubbed, and public facing connection port blockaded has a human being at the end we will then fully grasp the concept of "defense-in-depth"...

Effective GRC management requires neither better mathematical models nor complex software. It does require us to explore new threat models and go outside the organization to look for risks we’ve never thought about and discover new links and interdependencies that may threaten our business...

DDoS is being used as a tool that has turned poor performing systems into weapons against their implementers. It proves that no matter how big the pipe you have, it's possible to push so much traffic that the odds of handling it properly and staying available are virtually zero...

"An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted packet to Port 777/TCP that exceeds a specified length and contains executable code... Successful exploitation of the heap overflow vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause the service to crash..."

Solid state disks are more reliable because SSDs do not contain any moving parts. There are no read heads, actuator arms or spinning platters that can break down in an SSD. SSDs can be moved around freely while in use and have a higher tolerance against shock and vibration than HDDs...

Senators and Congressmen don't have enough knowledge about cybersecurity to discern truth from fiction, so what starts off as questionable analysis soon becomes terrible government policies, especially when it is advocating for civilian companies to counterattack a nation's network...

"This vulnerability can be exploited by sending a specially crafted packet to Port 12401/TCP. A successful exploit will cause a buffer overflow that can result in a remote DoS against the 7T Data Server application on the targeted host..."

One must look at the range and breadth of companies and entities being broken in to by the likes of China to see that no one is exempt. Know the ins and outs of the technology as well as the spook landscape, especially if you work in infosec today, lest you become the next target...

Given that at some point MPLS traffic has to technically co-mingle with other customers’ network traffic, how can the PCI SSC claim that MPLS is private? The answer is a bit disconcerting to some, but for those of us with an understanding of the engineering issues, it was expected...

This is a great tool to see patterns in password security. After years of users being warned about password security, it is disheartening to see the majority of users are still using simple passwords. More alarming is the number of password dumps available from compromised websites...

The FedRAMP was established to provide a standard approach to Assessing and Authorizing cloud computing services. FedRAMP allows joint authorizations and continuous security monitoring services for Government and Commercial cloud computing systems intended for multi-agency use...

While often missed, this component of security is one of the most critical when it comes to understanding, and fighting the loss of data in your organization in a very real, tangible way. There are three types of threats you want to be aware of from the physical perspective...

"Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (DoS) on systems with affected versions of Wonderware InBatch Runtime Client components," the ICS-CERT advisory warns...